This New Year’s Day, parents might want to resolve to get more exercise – and bring their teenage children along. A new national study finds that only 9% of teens met the recommended 60 minutes of ...

Their gross motor skills, which involve whole-body movement, are fully developed by this age, although they will continue to be refined over the next few years. The same applies to fine motor skills, ...

A study underscores the value of physical activity. Researchers found patients who responded in a survey that they are physically active have a statistically significant lower risk of having 19 ...

A randomized controlled trial conducted on elderly individuals shows that an improvement in physical fitness and cognition can be achieved by increasing daily physical activity to a certain level. The ...

Topline: Children’s physical activity worldwide dropped by 20% over the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a JAMA Pediatrics study released Monday – a “developmental turning point,” researchers say, and ...

Physical activity, thinking skills, and emotional regulation are evolutionarily intertwined, yet an "evolutionary bug" makes us lazy. Explore the links and learn how to fight back.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. “Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to work we go,” chanted the ...

In a recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, a group of researchers assessed the impact of low physical activity (PA) on life expectancy and potential gains from increased ...

Background Physical activity (PA) in older people is critically important in the prevention of disease, maintenance of independence and improvement of quality of life. Little is known about the ...